Consumer Disclosure in Ecommerce Customer Journeys

Prompt category: Networked Climate Markets

Mission

To develop and prototype a product that the WG community deems worthy to address consumer disclosure gaps between products and its end-users (the mainstream audience) and foster more sustainable supply chains. To build on top of previous efforts around the e-commerce entry point for user adoption.

How to get involved

• Join the WG meetings
• Join the Discord channel: #consumer-disclosure

Existing body of work

Considerable work has been done during 2019 team contributions and research work of several that has led to progress in the development of several e-commerce related concepts

• Consumer Disclosure Contracts for Sustainable Supply Chains
  Addresses the following problem:
  • Unsustainable supply chains contribute to environmental footprints
  • Develop a model to track supply chains and rebalance the information asymmetry

As a solution it proposes a disclosure framework from primary material upto the finished product delivered to the customer .

• Informing the customer in E-commerce : browser extension
  A browser extension concept that lets consumers understand the environmental and social impact of the purchases they are going to make

• Enabling the consumer offseting his/ her C impact
  Project CO2ken helps by envisioning a carbon-backed currency

Project Reckoner

Project Name	Description	Prompt	Github	Contact
Consumer Disclosure Contracts for Sustainable Supply Chains	Developing an overarching framework & integration architecture	Wiki Hack_2019		Karolina Bryce WanYing
EcoWidgy - Consumer Disclosure Contracts	A browser extension that lets consumers understand the environmental and social impact of the purchases they are going to make.	Hack_2019	EcoWidgy_ backend	Eleftherios
E-Shopping Browser Plugin		Hack_2019
E-mission*	Open Source personal mobility information and analysis: Overview Videos on the UI Live Demo Architecture : Ch 3 - Thesis Shankari			Shankari
	MECO2 Interface (E-mission branch) Click Dummy Demo		Code	Eleftherios
CO2Ken	Enabling the consumer offseting his/ her C impact by envisioning a carbon-backed currency. YouTube Intro	Wiki		Raphael

^*Not directly related to consumer disclosure in ecommerce, but included for completeness

Progressing in 2020

The working groups met from May through July 2020 to

• Induct the teams on the work done till this time
• Generate ideas for further development of the various projects. These are collected in the idea sheet

Objectives for 2020

• Market analysis:
  • Explore existing solutions
  • Identify unsolved problems
• Create a product roadmap:
  • Identify data sources
  • Create a product architecture:
    • Create data connectors/APIs
    • Create front-end models e.g. plugin/website
• Create a working prototype
• Market Reach:
  • Identify prospective partners
  • Present prototype to prospective partners
• Expand working group and contributions

Next actions

• The ideas collected above are translated to actionable issues in this project repository
• Resulting from the design / exercise an epic / user story backlog will continually emerge, which will be packaged in a lightweight project structure